The Ancient City
The Ancient City
Dover | 369 pages | 2006 | ISBN: 0486447308 | PDF | 1.01 MB
Dover | 369 pages | 2006 | ISBN: 0486447308 | PDF | 1.01 MB
This influential survey synthesizes ancient documents and physical evidence to build an account of religious, family, and civic life of Periclean Athens and Rome during the time of Cicero. In bypassing the body of often-glorified post-Classical histories, it builds an accurate and detailed depiction of Hellenic and Latin urban culture."Ancient or modern, the city is among man's most complex creations and probably the most illustrative of both his best and worst qualities. The Ancient City, originally published in the 1870s, provides a 19th-century French view of Greek and Roman metropolises." – Washington Post